Radioactive scorpion venom for fighting cancer
...ain cancers known as gliomas. Responding to this urgent problem, scientists at the Transmolecular Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts created a radioactive version of this scorpion venom. Called TM-601, it contains an artificial version of the venom protein, attached to a radioactive substance called ...Study reveals high rate of diabetes in rural India
... strategies suited to resource poor settings is an urgent public health priority for India," Dr Raju said. ...ESC recommends interdisciplinary collaboration in non-invasive imaging
...ean Association of Echocardiography. "There is an urgent need for collaboration between experts in different techniques, with appropriate research funding, to establish how these expensive tools can best be used to provide the greatest benefits to patients and to reduce health care costs"....Tuberculosis must be tackled among socially excluded groups
...oblem drug users in London clearly illustrates the urgent need to strengthen tuberculosis control among socially excluded groups. The occurrence of tuberculosis in England closely reflects indices of poverty and overcrowding, they add. If the major determinants of a disease are social, so must be the reme...Disfiguring facial infection in young children can be prevented
..."Noma robs many children of their future. There is urgent need for countries where noma is still prevalent to set up control plans that emphasise prevention and early detection of the disease, while addressing poverty, environmental hygiene, perinatal health care, maternal and infant nutrition, and timely i...Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, August 1, 2006
...ts who have the best immunologic match or the most urgent need or who have waited the longest" for a transplant, says a writer (Academia and Clinic, p. 197). The writer calls for an organization to provide public education on the science and ethics of organ allocation. He says altruistic strangers who wa...Alzheimer's medication shows promise in treating nerve agent and pesticide poisoning
...se of organophosphorus insecticides underscore the urgent need to develop effective and safe antidotes against poisoning with these compounds." The study found that galantamine, a drug originally extracted from snowdrop flowers currently approved to treat Alzheimer's disease, could be used as an antidot...Automated external defibrillators are frequently recalled
...xplains. "Our study demonstrates that there is an urgent need to develop a more reliable system to identify and repair potentially defective AEDs in a timely fashion and to better notify AED owners when their devices are recalled." ...International AIDS Vaccine Initiative calls for new measures to search for an AIDS vaccine
... overall response to the epidemic. "There is an urgent need today for a comprehensive approach to HIV/AIDS one that balances the expansion of current prevention programs with targeted investments in new medicines and preventive technologies to reverse the epidemic," said Stephen Lewis, United Nations Sp...Mayo clinic finds aspirin, other NSAIDs, may prevent or delay enlarged prostate
...ntly at night to urinate, weak urine stream and an urgent need to urinate. Details will be published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. "This study suggests that men's urinary health may be improved by taking NSAIDs," says Michael Lieber, M.D., Mayo Clinic urologist and study investigator. He and ...Eastern Europe, Middle East tops in cardiovascular disease deaths
... suggest that heart attack and stroke represent an urgent international issue and are more prevalent than previously appreciated. The findings also raise the issue of whether or not the spread of Western culture is detrimental to the overall health of the rest of the world." Ohman presented the findings Se...Chronic diseases and injuries in Latin America and the Caribbean: Time for action
...) and injuries, and health policy makers must take urgent action to reduce this burden, say researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In an essay in PLoS Medicine, Pablo Perel and colleagues discuss the driving forces behind this epidemic of chronic disease and injury, and argue...Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors antidepressants and risk of violent behavior
...t: "The new issues highlighted by these cases need urgent examination jointly by jurists and psychiatrists in all countries where antidepressants are widely used." However, they caution that "In practice, clinicians need to be aware of the issues, but serious violence on antidepressants is likely to be ver...Effective treatments for panic disorder not reaching patients
...s to frontlines of medical-care delivery should be urgent goals for the public-health community." Barriers to effective care include difficulties with detection and diagnosis, uncertainty about where to seek help, and problems with insurance coverage and concerns about cost of care, especially in the US, ...World-wide warning of highly drug-resistant tuberculosis
...itorial in this week's BMJ. The authors say that urgent action is needed to implement effective tuberculos...l responses to this problem are required including urgent assessment of the scale of the problem and an increase in laboratory capacity. "Detection rates fo...Tibotec Therapeutics announces start of largest US study on HIV treatment in women
...mportant safety information below). There is an urgent need to conduct clinical trials designed specifically for women with HIV. The ratio of women to men among Americans diagnosed with HIV has grown substantially since the HIV epidemic first emerged. Today, women account for almost 30 percent of new ...Criminalizing HIV transmission is a threat to public health, say experts
...endants" if a prosecution occurs. There is also an urgent need for further research, to see whether criminalisation may be leading to reductions in uptake of HIV tests. Putting aside the difficulties in attributing who infected whom, they conclude that, in the case of criminal prosecution for reckless tran...Chronic diseases and injuries now number one killer in rural India
...ern of mortality and highlights areas that require urgent attention. "This 'causes of death' data is a key i...in Asia and Africa, said that the findings were an urgent call for action to control chronic diseases in developing countries. "Far too little attention has b...Depressed stroke patients often not treated for depression
... improved treatment." The findings demonstrate the urgent need for a large randomized controlled trial of antidepressant medication after stroke, she said. In previous studies, researchers have only used small samples of patients and have had inadequate follow up and limited ability to properly assess the e...Mouse study reveals new clues about virulence of 1918 influenza virus
...the devastating 1918-1919 influenza pandemic is an urgent imperative as we pursue efforts to prepare for--and possibly thwart--the next flu pandemic," says NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. "This elegant research gives a detailed picture of the overzealous host reaction to infection by a fully reconst...